Facebook Members Account for One-Seventh of Earth’s Population

So a total of one billion people use Facebook! And what a coincidence: every single one of them shared the same Buzzfeed listicle about 27 jellyfish who are confused about the last scene in Inception, or whatever. In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, Facebook friend-in-chief Mark Zuckerberg admitted that he did not know who the billionth person was. Smart money is on a person you went to high school with that also wants to connect on Linkedin.

Zuckerberg also said that the Facebook News Feed of the future “should be like a newspaper and shouldn’t just be a list of posts your friends are making. . . At some point, that will start to be a better map of how you navigate the Web than the traditional link structure of the Web. I think there’s an opportunity to really build something interesting there.” For example: are some of your wealthier and more well-connected friends unloading Facebook stock? This is something News Feed could illuminate!